currently taking Jan 1 sec update. PPWS29.69-39-6-4
edit: I turned wifi on, but it stalled in step 2 at 0% so I rebooted phone and is now in process.
edit: this completed correctly. Been running for a couple days with no problems.
edit: remember, that though my phone happened to be unlocked when I got it, it is unmodified. Pure stock. Never modified. (Modifications leave traces that screw things up - just removing a mod, doesn't really remove it!)
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Hey all,
Looking for some assistance here. I apologize in advance for not having specifics on everything, but it's been a couple years since I've needed to do anything with this phone (SM-G900A). I picked it up used a couple years ago and shortly after, I did a NOX unlock and rooted the phone for two reasons - using Titanium Backup and to unlock the WiFi hot spot. I recently noticed that something had happened and my root access wasn't working correctly- guessing from one of the OTA updates that was attempting to occur on my phone. I say attempt, because I don't believe they ever successfully installed since they always seemed to error out. I'm currently on StraightTalk, not an AT&T customer. Something weird was up with it though, because I could never uninstall the Xposed Framework or app, yet Pokémon Go was recognizing it was rooted and blocking my access. I should also mention that I had towelroot running on the phone and it's showing the custom unlocked padlock on startup.
Fast forward to last night- I wanted to return it back to the stock ROM so I did my research, found a couple different tutorials that included the correct ROMs and applied one - G900AUCU1ANCE_G900AATT1ANCE_ATT.zip. After flashing, the phone will not boot and freezes halfway through the swirls around the Samsung logo, then goes blank. The blue notification light also stays lit on the phone.
Thinking it was most likely bootloader related, I found another ROM that included separate AP, BL, CSC files. I attempted to flash the bootloader, which failed and I got the following error on the phone - SW REV CHECK FAIL : [aboot]Fused 2 > Binary 1
At any rate, it seems like my boot loader somehow got corrupted or isn't compatible with this ROM, but I was hoping some of you experts out there could provide some answers. At this point my phone is dead, so I'm hoping I can get it restored very soon.
Thanks in advance guys!
The issue identified in this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/help/g900a-stuck-samsung-logo-black-screen-d-t3050369) seems very similar to mine as well as what's described on this website- http://www.galaxys5update.com/fix-black-screen-with-pulsating-blue-led-on-galaxy-s5-g900a/
I'm seeing the pulsing blue light as well. How do I find the 4.4.4 OA1 Kernel identified in the first link?
I dabbled in a few custom roms when I first bought my note mainly note 7 ports. After they started having problems with each battery dying at 50%,random reboots etc.. I tried to go back to stock but when I tried to odin to QC1 it kept failing and failing so I odined to the newest update QC2 and it finally passed.I did like three factory resets and I was back on stock and happy until i started having random issues. Every time I'm in a phone call after like a few minutes go by the phone would randomly reboot itself then I would have problems where on facebook or snapchat it would freeze up and I would have to pull the battery.Then I would have issues with the phone battery not getting down to 0% and dying but dying at 50 or 25%.Also, I keep having to do the freezer trick to get my phone turned back on again. Ive tried every kernel to fix these issues QC1,QC2.PE3.PJ2,BEASTMODE ETC.. and nothing works,also im stock rooted qc2 if that helps running pj2 kernel if that helps..
Hey guys, I've encountered a thorny problem on my wife's N910T3, and am running out of ideas about what this could be... so, could really use some help.
Some background: The phone's been working fine for over a year of ownership, mostly on the stock ROM, which gets pretty laggy at times. A few weeks ago I installed a custom ROM (the Acapolypse-X N7 port) to improve performance, and for the past few weeks it's been working perfectly fine on the custom ROM no problem.
Today, when my wife went to check Twitter, the phone crashed and started bootlooping. I had seen a similar issue on my Note 3 before (which turned out to be a specific issue with the kernel I was using), so I figured I would just go into recovery, flash a different kernel or at worst, do a clean install of the ROM.
That's when things started getting weird: The phone would crash while INSIDE recovery during ROM installation (I've never seen a phone crash inside recovery before...) After failing to successfully flash a ROM or, even in cases when it succeeds, fails to boot, I decided to do a full flash back to the latest unmodified stock ROM (since I couldn't find an ODIN-flashable image to download, I used Samsung Kies for this - typically this resolves any kind of left over from previous installations).
On the first attempt, it succeeded - the phone booted into the stock ROM and I was able to start customizing settings. Figuring the issue has been resolved, I went ahead and attempted to root by flashing TWRP through ODIN, and that's when the phone went back to rapidly bootlooping again (it reboots every 2 seconds, I can't even get into recovery when this is occuring). The only way I can return to Recovery is by flashing it again in ODIN (typically this trick will only work once; upon rebooting the phone after that it is prone to start bootlooping again).
Based on the symptoms I suspected the NAND going bad. However, I receive no emmc read/write errors during flashing - all write operations in ODIN results in success and my friend even ran a full storage check via ADB and this phone just doesn't seem to have any bad sectors (I almost wish it were since that would resolve the mystery).
Anyone have any ideas what may be the problem? I have a decent amount of experience installing custom roms on my phones and troubleshooting installation issues, but I've never seen anything like this (crashing/bootlooping directly inside recovery).
I'm sure there are several possibilities that could be software related. However, I've had this issue on a couple of my older phones and it just turned out that the power button was sticking. Just had to pull the phone apart and clean it.
If nothing else seems to work for you, it wouldn't hurt to check this.
PS: I have 4 boys who like to play on the devices with sticky fingers.
I am running Android 7.0. I noticed that there has not been a security patch since 2017. I check for software update and there is one available that's almost half of a gig. I go through the steps to update. During restart, the progress indicator stops at 35% and phone starts up with the message that the update failed as it was interrupted. I have tried several times with same result even after factory reset. Also tried in Safe mode. Also connected to PC and SmartSwitch and says software is up to date. Phone works fine but it should be able to take the update. Any help would be appreciated. Considered a root but apparently AT&T version can't be rooted.
I received the OTA notification this afteroon for Aug. update for my AT&T Note 9. Everything was fine and normal until 'after reboot'. It looked like everything was fine, and the 'after reboot stuff' seemed to be nearly finished but an "Install Interrupted: the software could not be installed" message displayed in the place of the "success" message.
In all my years of OTAs, I think this may be my first failure. What is happening here?
(EDIT) I just manually checked and found the update, downloaded/installed/rebooted/errored again; same message.
Potentially Helpful info: I'm currently on the July 1 ETG1 - I ODIN'd the Xfinity ETG1 from Sammobile.
Any tips or advice are welcomed and appreciated. Hoping to avoid ODIN.
TeldenW said:
I received the OTA notification this afteroon for Aug. update for my AT&T Note 9. Everything was fine and normal until 'after reboot'. It looked like everything was fine, and the 'after reboot stuff' seemed to be nearly finished but an "Install Interrupted: the software could not be installed" message displayed in the place of the "success" message.
In all my years of OTAs, I think this may be my first failure. What is happening here?
(EDIT) I just manually checked and found the update, downloaded/installed/rebooted/errored again; same message.
Potentially Helpful info: I'm currently on the July 1 ETG1 - I ODIN'd the Xfinity ETG1 from Sammobile.
Any tips or advice are welcomed and appreciated. Hoping to avoid ODIN.
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I did the same as you and the OTA worked. I can't remember where I found the files I used but it wasn't from sammobile if that could make any difference. I know the size of the file and time it took to install seemed really long for a small file.
I've finally made time to backup - Factory Reset - restore, and then I tried up OTA the Aug AT&T update. I got the same Install Interruption error message from the OP...
I've tried plugging my phone into my computer and forcing the install with SmartSwitch... SmartSwitch sees ETG1 (July) as 'most up to date', and won't let me try to update.
Anything else I could try?